These two insightful points of view influence reactions to actors who dared to bare all on screen in 2022. The film made viewers feel for the actresses having to be vulnerable on screen. Many subjects in the film discuss having to "disassociate" from their bodies to "get through" having to perform a nude or sex scene. However, even with contracts and nudity riders, women had to lobby for intimacy coordinators and protection against harassment. The documentary shows how nudity was often expected from actresses, and getting naked on screen was often done as a way of "paying their dues" as performers. In contrast, " Body Parts," was a cogent, eye-opening analysis of how women's bodies are presented in Hollywood films and television. It also considered issues about body image. It celebrated being naked in a safe space where people weren't eroticized. The immersive, observational film, " Naked Gardens," set in a Florida naturist community, featured subjects of all ages and sizes unclothed almost all the time doing everything from cooking to using power tools. Two documentaries that played only on the festival circuit this year crystalized some of the attitudes about nudity on display in films in 2022. This is not nakedness under a veil of nudity, this is nakedness as power.The following contains spoilers for the films examined that feature nude characters. It portrays the body through beautiful, disruptive, and experimental lenses, subverting the historically dominant male gaze and celebrating the human form in all its rich variety. I think everyone will find at least one photographer they like in this show!’Īlthough broad and complex in content, the curatorial focus of ‘Nude’ is distilled. ‘What I’m showing isn't necessarily underrepresented bodies, and I do personally feel there is an issue to see this as a virtue in itself what happens when these bodies have been represented for a while? Are they all of a sudden irrelevant? With that said, it is very exciting and fun to see works in a wide array of expressions including different body shapes. It’s a photo that I love but that is very hard to post and show through the big online platforms, so I am very happy to show it to a wide audience,’ she says. ‘I also have a photo of my friend Adam Pettersson’s bum and balls through Lazoschmidl underwear with a cherry on top. Her work also alludes to the tension between nudity and censorship on social media, which is the subject of fierce debate. It is very important to me to do everything to deconstruct this hegemony, I am committed to invoking all these fights until they are won.’Īrvida Byström is presenting Cherry Picking. The series is a mix of still lifes and selfies, both of which have been feminised and dismissed as ‘low brow', according to the artist. ‘I am focused on giving a voice and visibility to those who are not or too little represented. It necessarily involves the other senses because it is impossible not to see, hear and smell people when you are close enough to touch them.’īut why does Pittaluga think it's important for contemporary photography to offer visibility to all body types? ‘I hope that one day this kind of question will no longer exist,’ she says. What interests me nudity, from a pictorial and emotional point of view, is the expression of the skin. The more body types we are exposed to, the more pragmatic our view will become.’įrench-Uruguayan photographer Bettina Pittaluga’s work in ‘Nude’ focuses on physical intimacy, which, as the artist explains, ‘can be revealed by being in someone’s personal space, or bonding through physical contact, by skinship. I created a series where I framed my models as sculptures and works of art in the hope that the viewer will suspend any judgments about whether they find the models sexually attractive or not, or whether their bodies are socially “acceptable”. Seeing nudes in a museum is one of the only exceptions to this. ‘In the US, what little nudity permitted is usually shown in a sexual context. ‘Most of the bodies we see online on a daily basis aren’t even real, but rather enhanced or modified by technology to conform to a current, unsustainable trend,’ says LA-based photographer Julia SH, who is exhibiting powerful, textured portraits of bodies rarely depicted in 21st-century media, presented in museum-like frames. But under this flawless skin is a rotten deception, one deepened by a social-media saturated society.
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